After quite a while of subjection towards African Americans, the abolitionists chose the time had to come to make a move. After that the Civil War started, it was a rough fight to the end. On April 18 1865, the Confederate states surrendered toward the North. The slaves were free from their owners, however African-Americans still confronted years of separation and isolation before them. After the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln encouraged the Southern States to rejoin the country, and turn into The United States of America. Congress was caught up with ensuring the privileges of African-Americans. The Reconstruction Corrections (the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment) were made to guarantee reasonable treatment of African Americans. The thirteenth amendment abolished slaver in the United States, the fourteenth ensured citizenship to African-Americans born in the United States, and the fifteenth amendment ensured African-Americans the privilege to vote. The fifteenth amendment just ensured a male right to vote, and it wouldn't be until sixty years until females were ensured their